lares and penates
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Her lares and penates range from Ella Fitzgerald to Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee.
From Time Magazine Archive
The scant lares and penates were sufficient to explain something of this shiplike trimness of the housekeeping.
From A Hoosier Chronicle by Yohn, F. C. (Frederick Coffay)
Thereupon the inner habitants of the deserted equipages emerged from amid their lares and penates, and met face to face.
From From a Bench in Our Square by Adams, Samuel Hopkins
Our lares and penates were sent by freight on December 17.
From The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm by Streeter, John Williams
Her lares and penates were being attacked, and she had come from the heart of her solitude to defend them.
From Lost Man's Lane A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth by Green, Anna Katharine
